Trump, Not Alvin Bragg, is the One Being Political
Because Trump’s Followers Love Him Unconditionally, Then—It’s a MAGA Axiom— Anyone Who Has Anything Negative to Say About Him is Being Political
The Republican Party is as Temperamental as the Protesters and Strikers in France
I’m trying not to pay attention. I’m tired of the spectacle. I’m afraid Trump may never go away. How many minutes, hours, years of my life am I going to lose with Donald Trump hogging my attention? I’m afraid the melodrama will distract me, as it is likely to distract the country and the world, from the more pressing national interest: the war in Ukraine, Iran’s nuclear program, or China. I say “or” China. Xi is no more of a real dictator than Trump was a good president. It’s no wonder the Republican party is more interested in defending Trump and decoupling from China—and fighting wokeness—than seriously debating policy—when virtually anyone who chagrins your sense of entitlement is considered to be in political conspiracy against you.
However, I have one last word on this indictment. My opinion still stands. I think it’s stupid. I think it’s ridiculous and unworthy of us. It’s vulgar, and it’s pretentious for this jumped up progressive DA to go so far out of his way to prove that Trump is an ordinary criminal as to dig up a zombie case from years ago and indict the ex president with an untested legal theory; that what would ordinarily be a misdemeanor is theoretically a felony, surrounding Trump’s payments to porn stars. What incenses me is how, dumb as it is, every conservative is detracting from the grandiose whimsicality of it by choosing to deride it as politically motivated. I almost wish it were honestly. That would mean Alvin Bragg were more interested in a higher principle than his own fame and glory. It is not politically motivated! There is no reason to suspect politics has played any role in this indictment. The irony of such accusations outraged me enough to motivate the political accusations I shall make now, in rebuttal in this newsletter.
Trump is Political
Hence what is political is Trump paying hush money to porn stars before running for president. That is the most political thing I’ve ever heard. When you break the law for the sake of your political interest? Trump redefines what being a politician and a plutocrat is. When you call any election you lose “rigged,” and stage an insurrection because you don’t like an election result, that’s also extremely political. To engage in acts of political violence? That’s being radically political! To take classified documents and not return them and invoke “executive privilege?” To turn around whenever you’re in trouble with the law and deflect blame by saying the law is just political, there’s nothing more cravenly political than to say everything that gets in your way is a political conspiracy against you, and that you are the target of political persecution every time.
And then consider all the Republicans who are calling this prosecution political just to ingragiate themselves with Trump’s base. They’re calling it political because that’s in their political interest. People are so infantilized nowadays it has gotten to a point where I think they quite honestly are incapable of separating law from politics, or fact from opinion, authentic from counterfeit. At the cost that they can’t identify crime or immorality either, if it were to punch m them in the face. What qualifies as justice nowadays is whatever validates your viewpoint. What is unjust is whatever invalidates your assumptions, hurts your feelings, and gets in your petty way. True is whatever pleases you. False is whatever is unpleasant.
Alvin Bragg is Probably Just a Gender Neutral Queer Theorist
There is nothing political about the DA. Trump and the Republican party are the most political god damn things ever. Alvin Bragg might be progressive. Fine. He might be soft on crime because of some absurd left progressive theory of criminal justice reform, for example. Where felons are “justice-impacted,” and the law is somehow more oppressive than crime. But if that were the case that Bragg is a leftwing idealogue, it does not follow necessarily that he would make a political indictment.
He’s using an untested legal theory in this context the same as in any another context, being progressive, he might base his decisions on gender queer feminist theory or something. That doesn’t mean he has any political stake in the outcome of this whole thing. He’s probably just a narcissist. His motivation is self-aggrandizement. His only motivation is to be the guy who gets Al Capone, or someone who’s a notorious criminal and a known bad individual. You might not like this trial. I do not. But understand that whatever is wrong about it, it has nothing to do with politics. Trump is being political.
You’re Saying Trump Broke the Law? Why Do You Hate Him So Much?
And hell the next indictment in Georgia and/or whatever comes of the Justice Department investigations will be slammed as political too. They already have been. Jim Jordan has already started a committee on the “weaponization of government.” To cynically just assume that impartial things like the law or government agencies are all political is only to give yourself a pretext to be morally unscrupulous, or in other words political. It’s like when Trump went after the elites and called to drain the swamp, he was only trying to give himself legitimacy as a politician when he would have none otherwise. Because they were all plutocrats, he was a virtuous outsider, a businessman.
Trump said once that he could shoot a random person in broad daylight, and his followers would still love him. I bet if he actually just murdered a random person, and even if the most conservative judge convicted him of first degree murder, there would still be an opinion on the right that the judge was being political or woke or a RINO or a communist.
If you’re as political as the Republican party today, then you’re apt to think everything, except for Donald Trump, is political.
—Jay
Yep.